NASA Old Venus Lander proposals

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While the URSS was in full swing with the Venera project, was there any concept proposed to NASA for a Venus lander to compete?

I found a lot of concepts from Magellan onwards, but none from the old period. Do you know of any?

[Steven Pietrobon]

The only US lander I know of is that one of probes from Pioneer Venus 2 survived for one hour on the surface in 1978.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Venus_Multiprobe